Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — Fish in Boiling Water. [ARTICLE]

Fish in Boiling Water.

One of the most remarkable discoveriesin the shape of a peculiar species of fish ever made on this continent was that made in Virginia, Nev. r in 1870. At that time both the Hals & Norcross and the Savage mines were down to what is known as the 2200-foot level. When at that depth a subterranean lake of boiling water was tapped. The accident floodedboth mines to the depth of 400'feet. After the water had all been pumped outexcept that whicli had gathered in basins and in the inaccessible portions of the works, and when the water still had a< temperature of 128 degrees—nearly scalding hot—many queer-looking little blood-red fish were taken out. In appearance they resembled goldfish. They seemed lively and sportive enough when they were in their native element—boiling water —notwithstanding the fact that they did not even have rudimentary eyes. VVheu the fish weretaken out of the hot water and put into buckets of cold water for the purpose of being transported to the surface, they died as quickly ns a perch or bass woukb if plunged into a kettle of water that was scalding hot; not only this, but the skia peeled off exactly as if they had been, boiled.—[Evening Wisconsin.